Rocky Mountain Power Gives Foodbank $10,000 Grant
For the fourth consecutive year, the Rocky Mountain Power Foundation is recognizing the needs of food-insecure children, seniors and families in eastern Idaho and rising to the challenge with a […]
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New Study Shows Improvement In Idaho Food Insecurity
An annual study released by Feeding America is showing a positive trend regarding the number of Idahoans who are enduring hunger and food-insecurity. Map the Meal Gap, a study based […]
Harvest Report: Spring Fruit Begin To Take Shape
Visiting with growers this week to get an idea how the 2017 harvest is shaping up. Mustard seed is blooming throughout the valley. After a long, gray winter these fields […]
Four Tips For Spring Cleaning Your Diet
Our dietitian Alexa has shared some tips for spring cleaning your diet. Here are some ways to eat healthy without breaking the pocket book. Get moving: If you do not […]
Magic Valley Partnership Grows Programs
Supported by a grant from the ConAgra Foods Foundation, the Foodbank led a year-long collaboration project to assess and address childhood hunger and food insecurity in Twin Falls County. The […]
Innovation To The Rescue
Don Brown, our Food Sourcing field representative, learned that global seed company Seminis was growing onions as part of their seed development process. The resulting crop of top quality onions […]
WinCo, Bank of America Help Launch Million Meals Month
The Idaho Foodbank is utilizing National Nutrition Month to launch “Million Meals in March”, a statewide campaign with a goal of collecting the food and funds for 1,000,000 meals in […]
Idaho Steelheads Help Distribute Beef Counts
Members of the Idaho Steelheads joined The Idaho Foodbank and beef producers from the Idaho Beef Council for a special beef distribution in Boise on Thursday, March 16, 2017. The […]
Finding Healthy And Affordable Produce
The Idaho Foodbank’s registered dietitian Alexa has some tips about how to make sure you’re getting healthy produce in an affordable way. It all starts with knowing what’s in season. […]
Boise State Football Player Raises Hunger Awareness
It was a late night in his native San Bernadino when Alexander Mattison, now a Boise State football player, came to learn how important his parents were in keeping his life together.
Giving Back Through Basketball
Boise State basketball player David Wacker is no stranger to hunger. “I went to a public high school right in the north east side of San Antonio and we had people […]
Not Ashamed To Ask For Help
When Casey, his wife and son showed up to a recent Foodbank mobile pantry in Boise, he wasn’t shy about sharing his story. For him, there was no shame to being […]
